Accepting the gist of your arguments, with some reservations regarding the human nature paradox.
As for the Democratic Party, I was deeply immersed in it for years during the “aughts”.
A delegate to state and national nominating conventions, board member of a large Democratic club, a publicly elected Precinct Committeeman, a hard working, …
Accepting the gist of your arguments, with some reservations regarding the human nature paradox.
As for the Democratic Party, I was deeply immersed in it for years during the “aughts”.
A delegate to state and national nominating conventions, board member of a large Democratic club, a publicly elected Precinct Committeeman, a hard working, ground pounding campaign canvasser of locations near home and occasionally other states, a licensed security provider (“bodyguard”) for Democratic candidates for local, state and in one case - presidential Primary campaigns (before they qualified for S/S protection).
So I know what Democratic Party “mantra” is, which is exactly why I eventually chose to resign from all of that when it became obvious that the Party could not see the forest for the trees.
And stubbornly refused to consider change.
Oh, I continued to donate to certain Democrats & Liberal pols, and am a so called “Super Voter”.
But that’s where it stopped, until 2024.
As a former military person, whose Oath to the Constitution continues - I’m newly Re-dedicated against the authoritarian cabal known as the “Republican Party”.
That sounds like a subjective argument, no? You imagine that there is a Democratic mantra because that is how you interpret your personal experience inside the Democratic Party.
Even if we'd assume for a moment that we could extrapolate it and show that it's the objective truth about the Democratic Party, my question remains: why would it be false?
You merely repeat that you believe that it's false here, but don't tell us why that would be true. Any idea?
In the meantime: a democracy vitally needs people like you and me (and everyone else) to have real, respectful debates (as we're having here), in which we both assume that we may be wrong and therefore accept to fact-check both our own beliefs and those of others, coming up with objective evidence and arguments. So that IS what "being productive" as a citizen inside a democracy means. We cannot possibly skip that fact. And if there is a democratic (Democratic or not) "mantra", this IS it... . There are no shortcuts. You need a lively debate culture, on the level of society, before a democracy can thrive and can quite easily defeat the constantly looming threat of falling into fascism. To the extent that we ARE today falling into fascism, restoring that culture IS what should be our first priority, and, I'd argue, is tremendously "productive" - productive of the civil society needed to restore democracy asap.
And with that... thank you so much for your service!
Accepting the gist of your arguments, with some reservations regarding the human nature paradox.
As for the Democratic Party, I was deeply immersed in it for years during the “aughts”.
A delegate to state and national nominating conventions, board member of a large Democratic club, a publicly elected Precinct Committeeman, a hard working, ground pounding campaign canvasser of locations near home and occasionally other states, a licensed security provider (“bodyguard”) for Democratic candidates for local, state and in one case - presidential Primary campaigns (before they qualified for S/S protection).
So I know what Democratic Party “mantra” is, which is exactly why I eventually chose to resign from all of that when it became obvious that the Party could not see the forest for the trees.
And stubbornly refused to consider change.
Oh, I continued to donate to certain Democrats & Liberal pols, and am a so called “Super Voter”.
But that’s where it stopped, until 2024.
As a former military person, whose Oath to the Constitution continues - I’m newly Re-dedicated against the authoritarian cabal known as the “Republican Party”.
Gotta be productive now. Have a good weekend!
That sounds like a subjective argument, no? You imagine that there is a Democratic mantra because that is how you interpret your personal experience inside the Democratic Party.
Even if we'd assume for a moment that we could extrapolate it and show that it's the objective truth about the Democratic Party, my question remains: why would it be false?
You merely repeat that you believe that it's false here, but don't tell us why that would be true. Any idea?
In the meantime: a democracy vitally needs people like you and me (and everyone else) to have real, respectful debates (as we're having here), in which we both assume that we may be wrong and therefore accept to fact-check both our own beliefs and those of others, coming up with objective evidence and arguments. So that IS what "being productive" as a citizen inside a democracy means. We cannot possibly skip that fact. And if there is a democratic (Democratic or not) "mantra", this IS it... . There are no shortcuts. You need a lively debate culture, on the level of society, before a democracy can thrive and can quite easily defeat the constantly looming threat of falling into fascism. To the extent that we ARE today falling into fascism, restoring that culture IS what should be our first priority, and, I'd argue, is tremendously "productive" - productive of the civil society needed to restore democracy asap.
And with that... thank you so much for your service!
Have a good weekend.
Post Script: And that may be so, for I am predominantly a soldier in this high stake’s political battle. Not a philosopher. 😉